A former DNA analyst for the state and Harris County has been chosen to lead the Houston police crime lab's DNA division, which is working to reopen after being shut down almost three years ago.

A Mountville man has been charged with multiple felonies after DNA evidence showed he sexually assaulted an unconscious girl at her Conestoga Township home in 2019, according to state police. Darnell ...

The Houston Police Department crime laboratory has received accreditation for all divisions except DNA, which has been shuttered for more than two years, officials announced Wednesday. Houston, once ...

Forensic DNA technology was still developing when 77-year-old Helen Vogt was stabbed 51 times and murdered in her Erie townhouse in July 1988. In the three decades since then, DNA technology has ...

Helen Vogt, 77, beaten and stabbed 51 times, was found dead in her Zimmerman Road townhouse in July 1988 Despite intense police investigation, the case stayed open for more than three decades ...

Our DNA is constantly being packed and unpacked. And there is a good reason for this: depending on its packing state, it performs different functions in the cell nucleus. For most of its life – this ...